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How so?



# Weirdness almost by definition can't be cool. Or at least not actual weirdness.

"Actual weirdness" being refined to mean the set the author chose, instead of an independent rule. Circular reasoning, designed to compel the (weak) conclusion you'd been arguing toward.


The independent rule is: weird is something that gets you marginalized in the society you live in, without being illegal/detrimental/an infringement on others' rights.

Being unusual is not the same as being weird. Being unusual can in certain circumstances make you "cool".

There is no circularity, and you have yet to make a pertinent counter-argument.


Hey, I didn't qualify it as 'actual weirdness'. That was somebody else. There's the nub of it.




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